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Disclaimer: unfortunately, these photos are not my own. I have visited this exhibit before, but cannot find any of the photos I took.This is an outdoor exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art. This piece is all about using art as shelter and…

This is a historic edition of The Washington Post, especially given the importance and relative rarity of presidential impeachment. The conclusory headline, "Trump impeached," is underscored by relating this step to the next - the senate trial. It’s…

A fake palm tree, complete with coconuts, seen at Coco Bongo on Hillsborough Street. Lights flash along its leaves, clearly visible during dinner hours. The stark contrast between the bright leaves, matte plastic coconuts and strange, furry head…

This is the Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom at Disney World. It's actually a restaurant that serves fantastic chicken nuggets, but that's not the most interesting aspect of the building. Walt Disney was enamored with the idea of nostalgia, and so…

The Rothko Chapel was constructed in 1971, at the height of artist Mark Rothko's fame. Rothko was one of the first and only minimalist abstract artists, and certainly the most successful. His work is extraordinary from a rhetoric of design…

This is a building in Prague I saw when I went last summer. I believe this fits into the postmodernist category because of the nonfunctional adornments on the facade and the stacked roof. Postmodernism was a rebellion against the uniformity and…

This house is located in the center of a residential area north of NC State's campus and its architecture stands out starkly against the other houses in the area which are more traditionally styled. Where Modernism was intended to be sleekly…

In front of the Kafka Museum in Prague are a pair of urinating statues. This is an example of rebellion against main-stream art as such a piece of art is a vulgar display. Created by the sculptor David Černý, this art display is an example of kinetic…

This is a bank building located in Cameron Village, a shopping center located in Raleigh, NC. The building is situated on the corner of a busy street.

It is a one-floor building with columns on the roof. In a post-modern style, it is an eclectic…

I was somewhat unsure of what to look for to identify a building as post-modernist in Raleigh, but I drove past this Extra-Space storage building and thought it had some characteristics that may place it into that category. First, its shape gives it…